Crochety Old Man Man

Using his cane, super-suspenders, and his ability to walk fifteen miles in the snow uphill both ways, Crochety Old Man Man fights off the evil forces of young people today and their inherent laziness.
This is for the Y Not Art Blog, a group blog I was just invited to join. You should check it out!

Tea Scouts

I got my rendering merit badge!

Flood of Figures

Okay, so it's become apparent to me that I've done almost nothing the past few months except draw people in swimsuits. Over and over again. That was not a complete sentence. But that one was.
Anyway, I have two figure drawing classes (one from Jamin, one from Chad Barksdale). I've been told that my Barksdale drawings look better than the more rendered ones from Jamin's class. I'm not sure, but they do photograph lots better. So I'm posting them below. Hopefully these can help me get in the animation program. Let me know what you think!






I told you there were a lot of them. Actually I didn't. But I will now: There are a lot of them.

Figure (Again)

Another from my Intermediate Life Drawing course. Jamin taught me something interesting: if you really watch the shadow edges (whether they're hard or soft edges) you can really get a lot more depth to your piece. Who knew?

More Life Drawings

Two more recent life drawings from class. They didn't photograph very well, but I'm pretty happy with `em.

Sketchers Anonymous

So a few friends and I have started up a sketch group. We're hoping to head out every week and... uh... sketch. Last week we just went to the mall (simple) but ended up sketching for almost two hours. Good times! I'm hoping this is just what we need to really help our chances of getting into the program.
Oh, and by the way, we've started up a blog to post our stuff. Stop by and take a look! (If you wanna join our little escapades, just let us know)
Since I'm on a mean streak of including an image for 22 posts in a row, I'll post a small sampling of the fruits of our efforts here.

Elephant on Parade

Here's a rough run-through of an elephant walk. Let me know whatcha think!

Shady stuff...

This week we learned all about textures and shaders in my Intro to Maya class. Lots of fun! Much less frustrating than modeling.
So the first two are pre-made models, and the last one (chess piece) is of my own design.

Don't Use That Tone With Me!

My first ever drawing on toned paper (with white charcoal). I think it turned out okay...

Incidentally, "white charcoal" was my nickname in high school.

A Day No Sketchbooks Would Die...

It's always fun to see other bloggers posting a eulogy to sketchbooks they have "killed"... but my weapon of choice-- a three-ring binder that I fill with punched printer paper-- happens to be immortal. Sure, it lacks personality, but it's cheap and durable (I used that line in a personal ad once...).
Anyway, I recently came to the end of a chunk of pages that had been sitting in there since about Christmastime, so I decided to clear it out and post some of the less vomit-inducing material.

We'll start with some character design: my wife is writing a children's book about a little girl who likes ballet. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Lena Ballerina!




I decided to use her for an assignment for my Intro to Maya class. The lo-res model didn't turn out so good (freakiest thing I've ever seen, actually). But I liked the orthographic views I whipped up here:


Nothing says Christmas like some reindeer sketches. Yes, these were from actual reindeer. No, I'm not always honest.


The rest are pretty random. I need to clean up my linework a lot, but I think I'm getting the hang of this sketchbook thang.